Coach for Sit-stand Furniture Means More Effective Use

Posted
on April 05, 2017

Changing working positions

For years, occupational health and safety professionals have been
encouraging more activity in the workplace. One example is the
introduction of fitness programs. Even so, this is not solving the
problem of spending the workday sitting for hours at a time.
Sedentary behavior can be counteracted only by frequently changing
working positions while at work. This is why an increasing number of
employers are facilitating their employees in achieving this by means
of specialized equipment at the workplace. A good example of this is
the sit-stand desk. This piece of furniture makes it easy for people to
alternate between standing and sitting because the desk surface can
be adjusted to various heights. What happens, however, is that
employees quickly forget about taking advantage of these tools once
they start focusing on their work. People soon lose track of time and
the need to change between sitting and standing because their
monitor, keyboard, mouse and the information they have to process
demand all of their concentration. If the benefits of the furniture are
going unused, such an investment is going to waste!

Missing link

This is why it is important to remind employees regularly that it is time
to change their working position. Department managers or health and
safety staff don’t have time for this, and a kitchen timer isn’t ideal
either. Constantly resetting a kitchen timer will gradually be forgotten,
and its noise in an office environment will not be appreciated. The
missing link for the sit-stand table is thus a coach that encourages
employees by means of their laptop to change their working position.